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The Science and Technology Thread

Interesting little flashback to 199 here, and the weirdly accurate prediction of a former Star Trek writer. Looking back, it seems so obvious that all of this would come to pass, but in 1999, I remember talking about this kind of thing with mates, and we thought it would be years and years before they happened.

"I’ve got a cell phone, a pocket organizer, a beeper, a calculator, a digital camera, a pocket tape recorder, a music player, and somewhere around here, I used to have a color television.

Sometime in the next few years, all of those devices are going to meld into one. It will be a box less than an inch thick and smaller than a deck of cards."
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https://www.shortlist.com/tech/star-trek-writer-future-predictions-world-1999-2018/351979
 
I never seem to have any cash on me (although I've not got much money anywhere else, either :ROFLMAO:) but this is interesting:

In Sweden, cash transactions account for only 1.4 per cent of the value of all payments and the country is forecast to become cashless by 2030. Market traders, churches and homeless magazine vendors all accept card and phone payments. More than 900 of Sweden’s 1,600 bank branches no longer take cash deposits. The country’s Riksbank, the world’s oldest central bank, is considering launching a national cryptocurrency: the e-krona (inflation-ravaged Venezuela recently created the oil-backed petro).

Even without government support, the UK has become one of the world’s most cashless societies: cash accounts for only 3.9 per cent of all payments by value (compared to 10.7 per cent in the eurozone and 8.1 per cent in the US).
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https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...leading-global-shift-towards-cashless-economy
 
The only time I use cash is in pubs and restaurants. I think that's just down to it being more difficult to split the bill if everyone pays by card or contactless.

I use my phone most of the time. It's so quick and easy, and you get a ready made budget in your statement.

Mind you, I bet some of you married men want to keep some stuff off the Bank Statement.
 
Does anybody understand this fully? Faster computers maybe just around the corner.

http://www.alphr.com/science/1009093/quantum-physicists-break-entanglement-record-computing

Using a record system of 20 quantum bits, physicists have achieved a new entanglement record: the largest entangled quantum register of individually controllable systems in history.

Rather than bask in their recent successes, the team is looking ahead to bigger, brighter and brainier things. “Our medium-term goal is 50 particles,” comes the response from Blatt. “This could help us solve problems that the best supercomputers today still fail to accomplish.” Child’s play, really.
 
I've had to do a bit of research into quantum computing to do an essay on the future of information technology etc.

It's all very exciting. Do I understand it all fully?

:hmmm:

:wack:
 
JuanPabloAngel said:
I never seem to have any cash on me (although I've not got much money anywhere else, either :ROFLMAO:) but this is interesting:

https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...leading-global-shift-towards-cashless-economy
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The cynic in me says its the banks pushing because they know 90% of people are retarded with money but really its probably just convenience.

Interestingly in the US there are both cash only and card only places, plus the odd 'cash or American Express only'.
 
Think this might be the right place as opposed to a new thread.

Cocaine breathalyser 'one step closer'

Researchers in the US say they have developed a low-cost chip that can detect cocaine in minutes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44055074

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In fairness my main interest was lower in the article they talked about hopes of marryjuana being detected as well, but maybe it's my age - I thought that was obvious when somebody was going 5 mile an hour whilst acting like they were either, A - dead or B - going 200 miles an hour.
 
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